Acts that we commit (crime, sin, treason, suicide) are often disapproved. Any reason for that, like a relation to other senses of "commit"?
@preinfarction Committing can be giving, devoting, dedicating, pledging, entrusting, confining, detaining, perpetrating.
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@preinfarction All of those but "perpetrating" obviously code some mental simulation of transfer. But perpetrating? -
@preinfarction The other recurring themes in senses of "commit" are imposed obligations and fixity of final location. But re perpetrating?
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